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The Vibe Coding Security Risks That Turn Into Six-Figure Lawsuits
COPPA, CIPA wiretapping claims, CAN-SPAM, and a missing DMCA safe harbor agent can bill an app before it ever makes a sale.
OpenAI Is Rewriting Its Safety Rules for Astra
The August 18 overhaul turns frontier-model safety into a live release gate, with new questions for developers, enterprise buyers, and anyone planning around OpenAI's next model.
Moonshot AI Is at the Center of Anthropic's Distillation Fight With China
Dario Amodei's allegations against Chinese AI labs escalated into a White House sanctions threat over Kimi K3. Here is the full timeline and what it means for US builders.
Anthropic's $1.5B Copyright Settlement Doesn't Answer the AI Training Question
The final approval closes the largest copyright settlement in US history, but the deal that ends Bartz v. Anthropic is about how the company acquired its books, not whether training AI on them was legal.
Meta's AI Layoff Lawsuit Is a Warning for Every Company Scoring Employee Output
26 workers say Meta's AI-assisted layoff system penalized medical, parental, and family leave. The legal exposure applies to any company using AI to score employees.
Apple Files OpenAI Lawsuit Over Alleged Theft of Hardware Trade Secrets
A once-close partnership turns adversarial as Apple accuses OpenAI's hardware team of systematically extracting confidential product data.
OpenAI Proposes 5% Government Stake to Ease Trump Administration Pressure
Sam Altman has discussed handing Washington an equity stake worth roughly $42.6 billion, part of a broader push to get other US AI labs to do the same.
Anthropic's Fable 5 Ban: The First Time Washington Shut Off a Commercial AI Model
Three days after launching its most capable model ever, Anthropic disabled Fable 5 worldwide under a Commerce Department export order - and the $965 billion IPO now carries a risk no software company has faced before
The Pentagon's AI Roster Is Eight Companies Long - and Anthropic Isn't on It
The Defense Department has signed classified-network AI agreements with eight tech firms. The absence of one name tells the more important story.
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